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EXPLORING THE PREDICTORS OF WELL-BEING AND ADVANCE DIRECTIVES AMONG ELDER ORPHANS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
(2018-08-20)Elder orphan is a term popularized by the media to describe the more than 22% of community-dwelling US adults aging alone with limited social support, social isolation, multiple chronic health issues, and childlessness. ... -
Legitimate Strategies In Writing : Exploring ESOL Learner Perspectives On Attribution
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)In many academic institutions today, ESOL (English as a Second or Other Language) writers may incorporate background sources into their writing in ways unrecognized by their academic institutions, which could lead to these ... -
Mystical Experience And Its Defense On The Mystical's Proper Understanding And Usage
(Humanities, 2013-03-20)This document will closely examine the issue of mystical experience by reviewing its origins in sacred concepts and leading arguments in the field of philosophy of mysticism. Ultimately, this document will attempt to prove ... -
On Their Own?: Mexican Immigrants' Assistance by Government, NGOs, and Self-Help at Times of Natural Disaster in Wimauma, Florida
(Humanities, 2009-09-16)During the 2004 hurricane season, four successive storms struck Central Florida causing catastrophic damage to crops and displacing close to 195,000 migrant and seasonal workers. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this thesis ... -
Perception And Presentation: Mythological Imagery And The Female Gaze In Italian Renaissance Art
(Humanities, 2007-10-08)Ostensibly, it would seem that during the Renaissance, subjects of mythological origin in the visual arts were almost exclusively created with the male patron in mind. While this is a highly visible trend, it is important ... -
PURSUIT OF ULTIMATE TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGE QUALITY: FROM CLASSICAL METHODS TO DEEP LEARNING
(2023-08-15)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Medical imaging plays a crucial role in modern healthcare, serving as a vital component in the realms of diagnosis and treatment. It encompasses a ... -
Repression, Language, Resistance: An Analysis Of Jacksonian America through Foucauldian Lens
(Humanities, 2010-07-19)During the age of Andrew Jackson (1824-1845), the United States experienced a social and political sea change that would leave the country changed forever. As Jackson served his country first as general and ultimately as ... -
THE EFFECT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON THE CHANGE IN MARKET VALUATION OF CORPORATE SPIN-OFFS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF SPUN-OFF SUBSIDIARIES
This dissertation focuses on the change in market valuation of spun-off subsidiaries two years after the corporate spin-off. A review of the literature indicates that the research pertaining to determinants of the market ... -
The Unheard Voice Of Immigrant Muslim Women in the United States post-9/11/2001
(Humanities, 2010-11-01)Immigrant Muslim women in the United States experience difficulties, as most immigrants do, with integration into a new society. In order to better depict the reality that these women are actually experiencing a lack of ... -
Weber's "Protestant Ethic" And His Critics
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)This thesis focuses on Max Weber’s “Protestant Ethic” Thesis. In his thesis Weber claims after the Reformation, Calvinism created the needed work ethic to produce modern capitalism. His critic’s arguments against this ... -
What Myths Reveal About How Humans Think: A Cognitive Approach To Myth
(Humanities, 2007-08-23)This thesis has two main goals: (1) to argue that myths are natural products of human cognition; and (2) that structuralism, as introduced by Claude Levi-Strauss, provides an over-arching theory of myth when supplemented ...